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Phoronix: Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia (www.phoronix.com)

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[–] fireshell@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 37 minutes ago) (2 children)

Linus Torvalds Confirms Decision to Remove Maintainers from Russia

You couldn't come up with a more powerful spit in the direction of FOSS. And from Linus, who is now kind of showing f*ck to the entire community. Here you have freedom, openness and all that. Today they just wiped their ass with it, and by one of the founders.

This is the moment when the split politics, dirty ones from all sides, have penetrated into the very heart of OpenSource - into the Linux kernel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_YozYt8l-g

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 36 minutes ago (1 children)

Software still has to follow legal rules, like when some distros removed stuff to be ITAR /EAR compliant for shipping across borders

Nothing is stopping Russia from taking the Open Source kernel and developing it themselves

[–] nanook@friendica.eskimo.com 2 points 21 minutes ago

@BCsven @fireshell Or Linus from moving the organization back to Finland, or Iceland, or Switzerland, or some other more neutral territory.

[–] MrAlternateTape@lemm.ee -1 points 26 minutes ago (3 children)

Unfortunately, Russia would not hesitate a second to use these Russian maintainers to include some shady stuff into Linux. Russia used everything they can to their advantage.

Now, we can wait for that to happen and have all sorts of issues when some backdoor gets distributed on a massive scale on a lot of Linux systems, or we can be realistic about the situation and take action before that.

I would not trust anyone from China to work in FOSS either, since they are exactly the same.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 2 points 5 minutes ago

If we follow through with it, I would absolutely never ever trust anyone from the US, for example. US is very much known for cyber espionage and shady operations.

This is all power play, and it comes from a very certain direction amidst this political struggle.

You want your open source code not to have backdoors? Review it meticulously. This is really the only way, and the one an entire open-source community relies on - pretty successfully, by the way.

[–] fireshell@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 minutes ago

by this logic it turns out that the code quality control system is built in such a way that if someone has malicious intent and wants to add malicious code, but is not affiliated with dubious structures, then he will easily succeed? Hey, what about enough eyeballs and shallow bugs?

[–] nanook@friendica.eskimo.com 2 points 20 minutes ago

@MrAlternateTape @fireshell <sarcasm>But Stuxnet proves nobody in the United States would do that.</sarcasm>

[–] fireshell@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 hour ago

NVIDIA banned Russia. What a stupid trick. Why block? As if anyone would be left without a driver.

[–] weker01@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 hours ago (11 children)

I was wondering what's up with the comments but then I realized the main feed sent me to .ml.

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